Are you saying that by using compression your index size goes up by a factor of more than 1024? From c10 kilobytes to 12 megabytes?
Compressing small fields can cause the index to get bigger rather than smaller but obviously not by that much. -- Ian. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Suraj Parida <parida.su...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ian, > > Small correction made ... > > Thanks for solving my previous problems. > > > Now i tested the compression with 100 docs and found: > 1. Without Compression size of FS directory (on disk)= 10.8 KB > 2. With Compression size of FS directory (on disk) = 12.0 MB > > and with 500 docs: > 1. Without Compression size of FS directory (on disk) = 45.9 KB > 2. With Compression size of FS directory (on disk) = 56.8 MB > > I mean do the compression will increase my disk usage ? if so will 50,000 > docs take around 6000 MB? > or please tell if am i doing wrong somewhere because i thought compression > will reduce space usage. > > Regards, > Suraj > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Searching-compressed-text-using-CompressionTools-tp27402945p27434651.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
